Date Issued | Name | Summary |
April 18, 2024 |
Nursing Home Residents |
To provide clarification on the meaning of “resident” as utilized for licensure of long-term care facilities and specifically whether individuals receiving subacute care are considered “residents” under this rule. |
April 15, 2024 |
Reportable Events |
To provide guidance and clarification regarding the reporting of events that are unrelated to or not covered under the Patient Summary Act. |
April 4, 2024 |
Radiologist Contrast Medium |
Blanket waiver to waive certain standards at N.J.A.C. 8:43A-25.2 which pertain to the requirement that a radiologist be present on facility premises when a contrast medium is administered |
March 26, 2024 |
Temporary Adult Acute Closed Psychiatric Beds |
To explain the application process to allow general acute care hospitals to apply for temporary licensure of adult acute closed psychiatric beds |
March 13, 2024 |
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Changes to Hospital Price Transparency Regulations |
On November 2, 2023, CMS finalized changes to its hospital price transparency regulations. The policies in the hospital price transparency regulations are intended to increase price transparency and enforce compliance and apply to each hospital operating in the United States. The effective date of the rule is January 1, 2024, but hospitals will have until July 1, 2024, to implement many of the updates and until January 1, 2025, to implement others. |
August 17, 2023 |
End of Life Training for LTC and Hospitals |
All LTCs and hospitals are required to have staff complete annual training on advance care planning, end-of-life care, and the use of advance directives and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms; provide patients and residents, and their families with educational materials; and develop and implement policies to identify and address end-of-life care issues for patients and residents upon admission to the facility. |
August 16, 2023 |
End of Life Training all General Hospital Emergency Departments |
This statute requires Emergency Departments and Satellite Emergency Departments to develop and implement a plan to integrate the provision of palliative care services for patients treated in the emergency department for whom palliative care is appropriate. |
April 26, 2023 |
Replacement of the Advanced Standing Pilot Program with the Deemed Status Program, effective November 1, 2023 | Effective November 1, 2023, New Jersey's Advanced Standing Pilot Program will be replaced by a Deemed Status Program. The Deemed Status Program will be in lieu of periodic inspections of Assisted Living Residences (ALRs) licensed pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:36. |
March 22, 2023 |
Support Person for Patients | Guidance for Acute Care Hospitals to accommodate support persons during hospitalizations. |
July 23, 2021
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Cardiac Services Memo | The statute removes the Certificate of Need requirements for full-service adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization, primary angioplasty and elective angioplasty, and permits general hospitals to add these three services through a licensing process. |
July 21, 2021
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Hospital at Home Waiver | This waiver provides the requirements for general hospitals to participate in the CMS Hospital at Home program. |
July 6, 2021 |
Statutory Amendments to the licensing of cardiac services pursuant to P.L. 2021, c. 18 | Changes to licensing process for full-service adult diagnostic cardiac catheterization, primary angioplasty and elective angioplasty |
May 12, 2021 |
P.L. 2020, c. 87 Additional Responsibilities |
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January 28, 2021 |
Notice of requirement to comply with the new minimum certified nurse aide staffing requirements in N.J.S.A. 30:13-18. |
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October 7, 2020 |
Requires certain healthcare facilities to establish and implement an annual influenza vaccination program. |
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March 29 2020 |
One Support Person in Labor and Delivery Settings - COVID-19 restrictions | Instructions for Acute Care Hospitals on how to accommodate support persons for Labor and Delivery patients during the COVID-19 emergency |
March 6 2020 | Required Outbreak Response Plan | Reminder of Outbreak Response Plan Requirement |
March 18, 2019 | Deemed Status Waiver | Licensed Substance Use Disorder Facilities can apply for deemed status. Facilities granted full deemed status will forgo the required biennial inspection while facilities granted partial deemed status will undergo a biennial inspection that will primarily focus on, but not be limited to, staffing and clinical records. |
March 18, 2019 | Shared Space Guidance | This guidance clarifies that a single legal entity licensed to provide both mental health services and substance use disorder services is permitted to share clinical space for those services. |
March 18, 2019 | Frequently Asked Questions | An infographic chart outlining the licensed capabilities of different categories of health care facilities in New Jersey, with particular focus on substance use disorder services and mental health services. |
November 5 2018 | Certificate of Waiver for Medication Assisted Treatment in Ambulatory Care Facilities Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:43A | This waiver grants relief from the provisions of N.J.A.C. 8:43A-1.3. NJDOH will interpret the definition of "drug abuse treatment services" to include buprenorphine or any other medication approved by SAMHSA for the treatment of opioid use disorders. |